Help with my site

Hi Paxton


A rough idea of what I first thought of what I was thinking, idea was that your in the USA, and using the RED/WHITE/BLUE of the US flag in your geometric design, which is really good as a logo BTW and I would keep it, is the below quick design.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7251/17459215ew9.jpg


I was done in Photoshop CS3 and I did save it in .psd .tiff .jpeg if you want the design.

 

Cheers, looking at it again I would tweak a few bits but not too much as you dont want to go over fussy with a logo as printing costs go higher, fonts should be clean and crisp ( used Type1 and OpenType ) and easy readable.

Only think I woudl adjust is the positioning of the text to go a tad higher for design flow, was thinking of adding to the i of incorporated the dot in blue or red, undecided on that although it would bring some colour in from the logo ( dont want to over do it with too colourful text as it looks tacky ).

 

In all honesty I think your swoosh is your logo, it could be made to be more trasnsparent and fit behind the company name.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9232/49532529gi7.jpg

or this again rough thought

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/4977/84216098ny2.jpg

 

Just my 2cents...the first of the two right above this post looks great. Actually they both do. Very professional. Pretty impressive Halo.

 

Hi Paxton, the white I guess your meaning the background?


Hard to do, yes and no... hard part is having a vision in your head of what you want to achieve, then its just knowing how to achieve it in the design application you have, GIMP is close to Photoshop so you could do the same as I have by building up layers of the design as it makes it much easier to adjust then when you have a section correct you merge those layers, take for instance the blue dot in incorporated is two seperate layers merged the word and a blue circle, then with drop shadow applied and reduced in brightness.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/7452/58146328fo5.png

PM me with your email address and ASAP I will send you the folder of the designs in it, the editable ones are the .psd ( Photoshop ) files, which GIMP should open IIRC.

Thanks I did design in art college, never took it up professionally though.

 

I'd say if you ever quit your medical job, you'd have no prob getting into design.

The transparent one looks great.

 

@Paxton, your most welcome ( do remember to PM me your email address and I will email the designs to you, likely tomorrow now as running out soon )


@Laura, cheers but I love my job now in medicine research, do get to use a fair bit of my desgin work for patient info leaflets and presentations etc so still keep my hand it as much as possible.